Kristen tells Entertainment Weekly, “When I heard of James’ passing, I was in New Orleans, where we met shooting, and every memory flooded back and gutted me. I’ll hold that time near to me forever. He was immeasurably great. My heart goes out to his beloved family.”

Kristen & James Co-Star In Welcome To The Rileys’

After filming Welcome to the Rileys, Kristen described her co-star in a 2009 USA Today profile:

“Jim was the sh*t,” Kristen said with a giggle. “He’s quiet. We got along well because we let it happen the way it’s supposed to. It was very organic, very cool.”

In 2012, James expressed his adoration for Kristen when he wrote a review about her performance in On The Road for a special feature in Variety:

“Kristen Stewart is one of the mad ones. But mad in a beautiful way. And she is determined to make people mad. To show them she is more than Bella in Twilight. To show them she does burn, and smolder, and wants more out of her career and life. And smolder she does.”

Our prayers and thoughts go out to James’ family and friends, and Kristen for her loss.

RIP in James. I hope you don’t mind by I just wanted to add the rest of the comment from James that was not posted in the article above:

“She is just beginning. She is fearless. And that can be that good, and that can be very bad. But she is smart enough to handle it,” he continued. “Stick around my friends, and there will be much, much more to come. Thinking about it, I am smiling already.”

And to emma to posted earlier please have some respect. This is not place to make rude comments. In regards to this article Candy other outlets were reporting on other actors who were making statements about the loss of this great actor. There were stories about James going to stay with John Travolta and his famliy after the loss of his son Jett and stayed while John was dealing with the loss of his son.

@emma—-get off this site if you can’t be respectful. Mr Gandolfini worked with Kristen Stewart and had nothing but nice comments about her as a person and as an actress, this is not the time or place to criticize Kristen or anyone else. Rest in peace Mr. G and condolences to your family. You left the world way to early.

What’s tacky about this. HW just got this out of an article from Entertainment Weekly, and many celebs have paid and will pay their respect this coming Thursday to a very respected actor in Hollywood. Stop being nasty because you obviously don’t like Kristen.

I think Candy felt it was tasteless to use Kristen’s statement to obtain website hits. At least that is what I think was where she was coming from. I actually think its kind of odd, creating a single post/article from a single condolence statement. I’d rather see another article about Mr Gandolfini, and maybe include a gallery of the various condolences that have poured in. Thank goodness HWL did not include a poll.

P.S. How do other celebrities release statements? By contacting a particular magazine or website?

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kikay

Posted at 5:44 PM on June 25, 2013

That’s a very heartfelt statement coming from a very lovely girl,they were very good together in WTTR.